Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 - May 6, 1952), was an Italian educator, scientist, physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, psychologist, devout Catholic, feminist, and humanist. She was interested in the education of mentally handicapped children and applied experimental methods to help these children learn to read and write. She developed her own methods which she later applied to all kinds of children.

One of the important things she did was that she founded the Children's House and developed there what would now be called the Montessori method of teaching. All of her theories were based on what she observed the little ones doing on their own, without adult supervision. Maria Montessori developed a different pedagogical method focused on the development and social maturity of the student instead of relying on homogeneous and standardized learning, where the emphasis is on assessment, tests or academic courses.

I like it because its method prepares children for the reality of life, they are not tricked, nor bribed, it is about learning values by themselves, seeing the natural relationship "act-consequence". The learning of all areas of knowledge is the same, with self-corrective materials. The child learns by himself, he is the protagonist.